http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Marci+Shimoff Self Help Marci Shimoff Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=262870&ca=Self+Help What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out — no matter what’s going on in your life? I can tell you that this is possible. Real happin... Self Help Marci Shimoff Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=262875&ca=Self+Help One of the biggest Happiness Blockers in today's world is what I call the Myth of More: that shared, insidious, and often unconscious belief that more toys, success and money means more happiness. In my research for my book Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, I came upon... Self Help Marci Shimoff Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=262880&ca=Self+Help In prehistoric days, when cavemen Ugh and his wife, Mrs. Ugh were trying to survive long enough to raise the baby Ughs, they had to pay more attention to potential threats than positive events to avoid dangers like being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger. This selective attention to negativity is what... Self Help Marci Shimoff Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261661&ca=Self+Help I was crammed in the back of an ancient flat-bed truck with 30 other Westerners, bumping down a rock-strewn dirt road heading toward the foothills of the Himalayas. We each had a bandanna covering our nose and mouth to keep us from choking on the dust as we made our way to a small, remote mountain v... Self Help Marci Shimoff Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261665&ca=Self+Help In my research for my book Happy for No Reason, which focuses on the core habits of unconditionally happy people, I discovered that one of the main ways we rob ourselves of happiness in life is feeling like a victim. Unfortunately, this habit can be very subtle and deeply ingrained. I first became a... Self Help Marci Shimoff Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=260340&ca=Self+Help Years ago, I taught a success seminar in which I asked the participants to take a big sheet of heavy paper and write across the top "100 THINGS TO BE, DO, HAVE." They made three long columns and began listing their dreams, big and small. When they shared their goals afterwards, they were invariably... Self Help Marci Shimoff Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=260344&ca=Self+Help A few years ago, at a get-together of a dozen girlfriends from college, I saw my old friend, Therese Gibson. When I told her I was writing a book called Happy for No Reason, which focuses on the 21 core habits of unconditionally happy people, she told me about the daily gratitude ritual she practice... Self Help Marci Shimoff Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=259518&ca=Self+Help Being happy is not just a state of mind — it's also a state of the body. What I found in my research for my book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, is that our bodies are actually designed to support our happiness. Renowned neurophysiologist Dr. Candace Pert documented... Self Help Marci Shimoff Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=259520&ca=Self+Help Think of a time when you felt that life was miraculous — watching early-morning light fill a mountain valley, holding your newborn baby in your arms for the first time, or maybe looking up into the vast night sky ablaze with stars. Every one of us has had at least one moment when our appreciation fo... Self Help Marci Shimoff Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=258341&ca=Self+Help Einstein once said that the most important question a person can ask himself is, "Is this a friendly universe?" As part of the research I did for my new book, Happy for No Reason, I interviewed over one hundred unconditionally happy people. What I found was that they all answered Einstein's question...